K-type star · orange
56 Sgr
56 Sgr is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 208 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,601 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.77× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 208 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7515 · HD 186648 · HIP 97290
4,601 K
temperature
4.87
apparent magnitude
39.77× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
208 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
39.77×
the Sun's light output
0.85
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.